TUESDAY Aug. 13, 2024

If you logged on to X-Twitter 8 pm Eastern Monday night, you might have thought you missed the social media site’s owner/Tesla-/SpaceX-CEO Elon Musk having a friendly “conversation” with Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump. Or you might have wondered whether X’s “Spaces” were somewhere else, in a portal far, far away from the regular ex-Twitter folderol. 

Our left-column pundit, Ken Zino, did, and gave up before Musk finally got the show going. Our pundit-at-large, Stephen Macaulay, had already given up on the “conversation” ahead of time and explains why he sat this one out, in the right column. Nevertheless, there were 998 million posts about Trump-Musk between 7:47 and 10:47 pm, according to Musk's X account.

If you have something to say about the Musk-Trump show, whether you listened or not, please send us your Comments. Respond in the left column Comments section if you fall to the left of the political horseshoe’s center, or in the right column Comments section if you fall to the right. 

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